League cup

[jodjam]

Can't post link but spfl just announced the change to the cup. 8 groups of 5 playing each other once. Penalty shoot outs for bonus point after a draw.

Guess club will have to amend cup top now.

[DTS]

As it says on the tin
http://spfl.co.uk/news/article/new-league-cup-format-announced/

I'm all for changing the game up for the better but I'm not totally convinced with having competitive games in July and I'd say it may actually end up devaluing the league cup into more of a "mickey mouse" cup as the group games will almost be like pre season games

[Diclonius]

http://spfl.co.uk/news/article/new-l...mat-announced/

8 groups of 5, games played over 2 and a half weeks in the second half of July, winner and 4 best runners up qualify for the round of 16 along with the 4 teams in Europe.

Sounds fine, but will they regionalise it? Also not too keen on the "Winter break".

[bingo70]

Think this sounds utter pish.

Who comes up with this nonsense and whys it launched at this time on a Monday night?!

[Liam89]

Think it sounds fine. Something needed changing anyway; hopefully this will be a breath of fresh air into the competition.

[Onceinawhile]

I like the idea

[Baldy Foghorn]

Do teams then get 3 home games and 2 away games in 14 days......

Sounds another botched up idea to me............

[Sir David Gray]

Not happy with the winter break at all.

Boring.

[stantonhibby]

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Think this sounds utter pish.

Who comes up with this nonsense and whys it launched at this time on a Monday night?!

Indeed. Why they can't just get on with reconstructing the leagues I don't know. As has been said this will just devalue the cup further. Ah well at least we'll be the last winners in the current format.

[zolliehibs]

Not too fussed about the winter break either way as one of those weeks is usually cup weekend anyway.

League cup idea sounds interesting though - interested to see if it will be regionalised/seeded in any particular way. Could see an Old Firm derby being shoehorned in down the line.

[LancashireHibby]

Can only assume it will be regionalised, but that'll get a bit repetitive after a year or two. Also rules out any lucrative pre-season friendlies, though I suppose it's been a while since we've had one of those, and it should provide good preparation for the league campaign.

First few games will be particularly sluggish as well unless clubs start pre-season training in early-mid June.

With a guaranteed number of home games, it will be interesting to see how this is packaged in terms of season tickets and CTU's. Do you include all group games in the season ticket, or just run it as previous CTU systems and risk particularly low crowds? Would including it in season tickets mean that families are less likely to buy, given the season tickets would start before the schools even break up for summer?

[Boyle89]

Sounds like change for changes sake. Don't like it. Might be good, time will tell.
Also not keen on winter break.

[3pm]

Players burnt out in August!

[Speedy]

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Think this sounds utter pish.

Who comes up with this nonsense and whys it launched at this time on a Monday night?!

This Monday thing is ridiculous. Same with the draws.

[Eyrie]

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Do teams then get 3 home games and 2 away games in 14 days......

Sounds another botched up idea to me............

I'm assuming that a group of five means two home games and two away games as you'd only play each opponent once.

But I agree with your second comment.

[LancashireHibby]

Good to see the winter break is back on the agenda. Because, as we all know, Scotland only suffers adverse weather conditions for a fortnight in January.

[Haymaker]

Well this is strange

[B.H.F.C]

Everybody will just use the group stage as a pre season.

It'll only really get interesting from the last 16.

[Baldy Foghorn]

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I'm assuming that a group of five means two home games and two away games as you'd only play each opponent once.

But I agree with your second comment.

Taking effect from summer 2016, the new format will see eight groups of five teams play each other once each in a round-robin format across five July dates (16th, 20th, 23th, 27th & 30th).

I made an ass of opening comment, so two home, two away.....

[ScottB]

I'm assuming this is a precursor to an expanded top flight switching to 2 matches per season against each team, with this League Cup, if regionalised, chucks in extra derbies as a compensatory effort to the clubs?

Pretty strange time of night to put a PR announcement mind. Having a sponsor for it would have helped too!

[Bronson]

While this is a bit odd, I quite like it. Interested to see how it works out.

[LaMotta]

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Taking effect from summer 2016, the new format will see eight groups of five teams play each other once each in a round-robin format across five July dates (16th, 20th, 23th, 27th & 30th).

I made an ass of opening comment, so two home, two away.....

That means that one team per group will have played all its matches before the other teams....luck of the draw I suppose. Assuming there will be seeding as well to keep big teams apart??

[.Sean.]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

And launched on a Monday night. At 10pm.

Mind-boggling, amateur, shambles of an organisation.

[Haymaker]

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😂😂😂😂😂😂

And launched on a Monday night. At 10pm.

Mind-boggling, amateur, shambles of an organisation.

Agree

[lucky]

I like the change, spices it up a bit. Now when the league reconstruction going to be introduced?

[iwasthere1972]

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That means that one team per group will have played all its matches before the other teams....luck of the draw I suppose. Assuming there will be seeding as well to keep big teams apart??

To avoid the above situation it may have been better doing 10 groups of four teams and the two best runners-up to go through to the next round. Or am I just be daft?

[SteveHFC]

What a stupid idea. Should just have a simple knockout round with 2 legs.

[cabbageandribs1875]

will that be a the players holidaybobs having to get fitted in to a shorter time frame, may as well just get round to playing summer football :)

[Saturday Boy]

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And launched on a Monday night. At 10pm.

Mind-boggling, amateur, shambles of an organisation.

And this is a quote from the article:

The current Scottish League Cup format involves six rounds; the new format, scheduled to kick off on Saturday 16 July, 2015, involves four rounds plus the new group stage

That's right, new format starts six months ago. I never even noticed.

[Peevemor]

The league cup used to start with early season group stages back in the 80s but the format was binned because everyone hated it. The overwhelming consensus was that a straightforward knockout format was much more exciting. Definitely change for the sake of it.